who being the brightness of his glory and the express image of his substance, and sustaining all things by the word of his power, having made a purification of sins, sat down on the right hand of the majesty on high,

For to which of the angels said he at any time, You are my Son, to-day have I begotten you? And again, I will be to him a Father and he shall be to me a Son?

And to which of the angels said he at any time, Sit on my right hand till I make thy enemies thy footstool?

Wherefore I was displeased with that generation and said, They always err in mind, and they did not know my ways,

It was said, To-day if you will hear his voice, harden not your hearts as in the provocation;

For we enter into the rest who believed, as he said, I swore in my wrath that they shall not enter into my rest, although of works made from the foundation of the world.

again he defines a certain day, To-day, saying in David, after so long a time, as it was said before, To-day if you will hear his voice, harden not your hearts.

and there is nothing which is not manifest in his sight; for all things are naked and exposed to his eyes, to whom our discourse relates.

So also Christ did not put on himself the honor of being made a chief priest, but he that said to him, Thou art my Son, to-day have I begotten thee;

that by two immutable things, in which it is impossible for God to lie, we might have strong consolation, who fled to lay hold on the hope set before us,

For he of whom these things are said belonged to another tribe, of which no one attended to the altar;

for it is evident that our Lord arose from Judah, in respect to which tribe Moses said nothing concerning priests.

BUT the chief thing in addition to what has been said is, that we have such a chief priest who sat on the right hand of the throne of the majesty in the heavens,

a minister of the sanctuary, and of the true tabernacle, which the Lord set up, not man.

having the golden censer and the ark of the covenant overlaid on every side with gold, in which were the golden vase that had the manna and Aaron's rod that budded and the tables of the covenant,

then I said, Behold, I come,??n the volume of the book it is written of me,??o do thy will, O God.

then he said, Behold, I come to do thy will. He takes away the first, that he may establish the second,

but this [priest] having offered one sacrifice forever for sins, sat down on the right hand of God,

The Holy Spirit also testifies [this] to us; for after it had said before,

For we know him that said, Judgment belongs to me, I will repay. And again, The Lord will judge his people.

By faith Enoch was translated without seeing death, and was not found because God translated him. For before the translation he was said to have pleased God;

of whom it was said, In Isaac shall your posterity be called,

Therefore also we, having so great a cloud of witnesses lying around us, laying aside every impediment and sin which entirely surrounds us, let us run with patience the race set before us,

looking to the chief guide and perfecter of the faith, Jesus, who for the joy set before him despised the shame and endured the cross, and sat down on the right hand of God.

and so fearful was the sight, that Moses said, I fear and tremble,??22 but you have come to Zion, the mountain and city of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem, and to myriads of angels in general assembly,

Let your life be without avarice, and be contented with what you have; for he said, I will never leave you, I will never forsake you;

perfect you in every good work to do his will, doing in you that which is pleasing in his sight through Jesus Christ, to whom be the glory forever; amen.